The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 40 - 32 The Girl of Destiny_1
Chapter 40: Chapter 32: The Girl of Destiny_1
Chapter 40 -32: The Girl of Destiny_1
Beneath Black Water Pool.
Pang Jian rode the giant python, plunging downward, thinking of leaving this place as quickly as possible.
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As he neared the bottom of the pool, he saw a gleam of silvery light, like shattered crystal scattered across the ground.
Upon closer inspection, he realized it was that spread-out Silver Silk Giant Net on the floor.
Beyond that, the man penetrated by the golden mask was holding a bamboo flute that also emitted a faint glow.
Pang Jian looked up, didn’t see Hong Tai’s figure, and communicated his wish to the python through his mind.
Understanding his intention, the “Dark Giant Python” then carried him around the bottom of the pool, searching for anything that caught his eye.
He first went to lift the Silver Silk Giant Net and found it to be very light underwater; despite the humanoid creature’s struggles, not a single thread had broken.
After wrapping up the net into a bundle, he picked up the arm-length bamboo flute, then searched around the bodies of the three Meridians Channeling Realm cultivators.
He found some shattered silver, a few impure Spirit Stones, which he placed into a pouch beside Jin Yang’s body.
The jade pendant carved with a chi dragon had obvious cracks, which he also tugged off, intending to take it with him.
Perhaps because he exerted too much force, or the jade pendant was too severely damaged, it shattered on the spot.
So, Pang Jian casually discarded it.
He glanced over the Cicada Wing Swords scattered at the bottom of the pool and saw that most of them were deformed and seemed to be of little value.
He sighed inwardly, thinking that if he had known there would be spoils of war to collect, he should have held back earlier.
Convinced that he should leave Black Water Pool, he roamed around the pool bottom once more and found no other items of value.
Feeling slightly regretful, he returned to the stone door that was cracked open a sliver. With no sign of Hong Tai, he opened the stone door with peace of mind.
After entering.
He placed the bag of Spirit Stones from Ning Yao, along with all his other gains, into a bamboo basket.
Strapping the heavy basket onto his back and carefully covering it, making sure there was no issue, he then turned to look at the python that had accompanied him in battle by the stone door.
As he looked at the python, the “Dark Giant Python” inside it also gazed back at him with its pitch-black serpent pupils.
After a moment’s hesitation, Pang Jian suddenly reached out, affectionately touching the python’s head in front of the stone door, and asked in his heart, “Do you want to leave Black Water Pool with me?”
The python looked at him blankly, as if unsure how to respond.
He smiled inwardly and said, “The stone path might be narrow, but you can easily pass through if you detach your Beast Soul from the body.”
He knew that within the python raised by Hong Tai, now resided the true master of Black Water Pool—the creator of the many Beast Bones and hunter skeletons at the bottom of the pool.
The python, attacked by the Phoenix Bone, was no kind creature and over the years, had corroded countless beings with its potent poison.
However, the reason he managed to slay so many Ghost Cultivators this time was largely because of this giant python.
—Even though he still didn’t understand why the python was willing to help him.
Considering that the python’s true body had been pierced by the Phoenix Bone, now only a remnant soul was left, he felt the python had received its deserved punishment.
Therefore, he wanted to take this soulless python away, to escape from the suffering at Black Water Pool.
But his good intentions were not accepted by the “Dark Giant Python.”
Upon sensing his intention, the “Dark Giant Python,” with its obsidian-like serpent pupils, eventually rested its gaze on the bronze door pendant on his chest.
At the bottom of the pool, ever obedient to his thoughts, collecting the scattered fragmentary souls one by one, the “Dark Giant Python” now recalled many things.
Its serpent pupils reflected complex emotions.
Through the boy’s warm palm, it could sense his thoughts and feelings, knowing that the boy’s invitation was truly sincere.
The boy had forgiven its misdeeds in Black Water Pool, genuinely wanted to take it away, and even felt an odd sense of… dependency on it.
But it couldn’t accept that just yet.
Its gaze returned to the boy’s face, it gently shook its head at him, then swam away from the stone door.
Pang Jian sighed inwardly, staring blankly as it moved away from the stone door to the side of its own corpse.
It circled the large circular Snake Bone remains scattered beside the Phoenix Bone, swimming back and forth.
It found it hard to let go of its true body, as if it couldn’t yet depart from itself, not comprehending its current situation.
Pang Jian was moved and thought to himself, “You’re already dead.”
The departing “Dark Giant Python,” now out of physical contact and too far away, couldn’t hear his heart’s voice.
“Enough,”
Pang Jian sighed inwardly.
He understood that when the python shook its head, it had formally declined his offer, and once it swam away, it wouldn’t return.
The boy, full of regret, didn’t continue to wait any longer. He sealed the stone door tight and turned to walk down the deep stone pathway.
The stone door closed completely.
After Pang Jian had completely disappeared,
The “Dark Giant Python,” which had just coiled by its own head, quietly swam back.
With its pair of pitch-black, mysterious serpent pupils, it stared unwaveringly at the stone door indistinguishable from the rest of the rocks.
For a very long time, whether it was the body of the python it had possessed or its pitch-black serpent pupils, neither moved an inch.
The young boy, who bore no grudge and knew nothing of its past, had now vanished into the tunnel behind the stone door, perhaps never to be seen again.
Yet the boy’s recent kindness and heartfelt invitation had become an indelible mark deep within its Beast Soul.
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